Recipes with butter

Deep dish fresh peach pie with cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice under a flaky single-crust top. Baked hot then low for a bubbly, golden summer dessert.

Oat-pecan praline cookies with molasses, maple extract, and brown sugar. Chewy oat cookies loaded with chopped pecans and topped with a pecan half, baked to a deep golden brown.

Chicken breasts broiled with an herb butter seasoned with garlic, parsley, rosemary and thyme. Comes out nice and juicy!

Flourless-style chocolate almond cake made with toasted ground almonds, melted dark chocolate, and just a quarter cup of flour. Light, fudgy, and lifted by whipped egg whites for a fallen souffle texture.

Italian rice and spinach soup (minestrina) simmered in chicken broth with arborio rice, garlic, and olive oil, finished with freshly grated Parmesan. A light, brothy bowl from the Italian home cooking tradition.

Vegetarian vegetable soup with an Indian twist: ghee-toasted ginger, garlic and onion form a roux base, then mixed vegetables, tofu and soy sauce join in a warming 30-minute bowl.

Jalapeno potatoes: a Southwestern scalloped potato casserole with red-skin potatoes, pimentos, red bell pepper, and a creamy jalapeño cheese sauce. Feeds eight.

Oven pancakes baked on a hot buttered sheet pan with buttermilk batter. No flipping, no standing at the stove. A batch of golden pancakes in under 15 minutes.

Chocolate caramel hazelnut pie with a from-scratch caramel base, unsweetened chocolate, evaporated milk, and a heavy load of toasted hazelnuts. French-style patisserie pie in a prebaked shell.

Honey crunch baked apples stuffed with granola, dates, and almonds, drizzled with a honey-butter apple juice sauce. Old-fashioned autumn dessert you can feel good about.

German veal schnitzel topped with stewed tomatoes, white asparagus, and fresh mushrooms, pan-seared in butter with paprika. Serve with pureed potatoes for a classic Bavarian dinner.

Mint chocolate fudge brownies made with melted mint-chocolate chips for intense minty richness, plus chopped nuts and a dense, fudgy crumb. Thin Mint meets brownie.

Mom's green noodles: egg noodles tossed in a parsley-butter-sour cream sauce with Parmesan, Romano, and fresh garlic. A bright, herby family pasta recipe in under 30 minutes.

Harvest spice tea cake folds steeped autumn-spice tea into a simple egg-and-sugar batter for a fragrant, almost-sponge cake. Served warm with butter, fresh nutmeg, and spiced whipped cream.

Blueberry crumb cake baked in a loaf pan with fresh blueberries folded into a simple batter and topped with a buttery cinnamon-sugar streusel. A homestyle cake that's easy to slice and share.

Cornmeal-crusted pan fried trout cooked in butter until golden and flaky. A classic four-ingredient fish recipe ready in 15 minutes from rinse to plate.